back to article NBase-T maps out spec ahead of products in 2016

A year after its launch, the NBase-T 2.5 / 5 Gbps Ethernet alliance's 802.3bz IEEE specification is drawing closer to reality. Peter Jones, chair of the alliance (he's also a principal engineer at Cisco, but members of the alliance do so as individuals, not as company reps), told The Register the 2016 agenda will be led by …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Peter Jones?

    ""Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm " etc etc

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    How much more expensive can 10 Gbps be compared to non-existent 2.5/5 Gbps equipment?

    Just buy better stuff already.

    1. Steve 53

      Re: New???

      The point isn't the equipment cost, the point is that you can run it over 100m of cat5e. 10BaseT requires Cat6 at a minimum (55m), and Cat6a/7 for full the same range (100m).

      Replacing structured cabling is expensive and disruptive.

      1. MrRimmerSIR!
        Facepalm

        Re: New???

        You mean there's more to the world of IT infrastructure than scrabbling behind a desk in a geek's bedroom to pull out a few wires?

      2. AlanBBoyd

        Re: New???

        And NBase-T will let you power 802.11ac Wave 2 access points via your preferred flavour of PoE (pick a manufacturer), and have uplinks >1Gbps over existing Cat5e/6/6a.

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